Killer Drought Thwarted Maya Comeback

Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer

Much has been made of the so-called 2012 Mayan apocalypse. But for the real Maya people, the end of the world came slowly and timed with historic droughts.

A new, ultra-detailed climate record from a cave in Belize reveals Classic Maya civilization collapsed over centuries as rain dried up, disrupting agriculture and causing instability that led to wars and the crumbling of large cities. A final major drought after the political collapse of the Maya may be what kept the civilization from bouncing back.

"Even fairly subtle shifts initially in climate toward drying appear to have pretty significant ramifications for the social and political fabric of the Maya world," said study researcher Douglas Kennett, an environmental anthropologist at Pennsylvania State University....To Read More.....

My Take – And the cause of this climate change was……..SUV’s, manufacturing, modern living….oh….wait….they didn’t have that did they in the six hundreds. So their climate change was…..all natural! Right? So if the climate changes regularly due to factors over which we have no control why should we believe any climatic changes taking place right now are being controlled by man? If you believe that man can control the climate I want the state to make it clear that for Cleveland I insist that the climate must be perfect all the year. July and August cannot be too hot. There must be a legal limit to the snow in Cleveland. The winter shall be forbidden till December, and exits March the second on the dot. By order, summer lingers through September in Cleveland. I know it sounds a bit bizarre, but in Cleveland that is how condition must be. The rain may never fall till after sundown. By nine p.m. the moonlight must appear. By eight, the morning fog must disappear. In short, there shall simply not be a more congenial spot for happily-ever-aftering than here In Cleveland.

Oh…wait....all of that was from a song sung by Richard Burton in the Broadway musical Camelot…. A mythical place with mythical laws regarding the mythical ability to control the climate by edict.